Pixton for Science: Turn Scientific Thinking Into Visible Thinking
Pixton’s Comic Maker helps students visualize complex scientific ideas, explain everyday phenomena, and stay engaged across every science discipline in ways that help them to reflect on their understanding, articulate their reasoning, and explain what is “true” or “false.”
What’s Inside Pixton’s Interactive Science Lessons
Pixton’s Comic Maker gives you all the tools and resources you need for effective science instruction:
Science Lesson Ideas
Design your lessons with ease using Pixton’s ready-to-go Lesson Ideas. Select your grade and scientific domain and explore hundreds of ready-to-use lessons in topics like photosynthesis, simple machines, ecosystems, and more. Each lesson helps students model processes, explain abstract concepts, and apply scientific vocabulary.
Featured Content and Story Starters
Pixton’s Featured Content includes backgrounds, characters, scientific settings, and more that students can use in their comics. Each content pack is aligned to key science topics and scientific figures, making it easy to design a lesson aligned to your curriculum.
Not sure where to begin? Use Pixton’s Story Starters and have your students illustrate lab procedures, model the water cycle, or respond to prompts like “Explain why this experiment went wrong.”
AI-Assisted Activity Maker
With Pixton’s AI-Assisted Activity Maker, you can easily create customized science lessons from scratch in minutes. Type in the topic, skill, or idea you want students to learn, and the Activity Maker will help you design a lesson that meets your goals.
Interactive Rubric
Pixton’s Comic Maker includes an interactive rubric that allows students to assess themselves before you do, opening the doors to deeper conversation and personalized learning.
Assessments
Diagnostic - See what your students know before you begin.
Use Pixton at the start of a unit to gauge how much students already know about a scientific concept/skill, how they explain abstract concepts, and prior knowledge of key vocabulary. Asking students to build or complete a short comic showing their understanding of a concept or process will give you a quick picture of each student’s starting point, so you can plan instruction with confidence.
Formative - Make checks for understanding more engaging and student-friendly.
Pixton makes it easy to monitor understanding during your science lessons. Students can quickly create or revise a comic to correct a misconception, model the next step in a process, or show how a variable changes an outcome. These short, low-stakes creations help you see how students are processing new material in real time, so you can adjust instruction with confidence.
Summative - Students show their learning through creative storytelling.
Students show their learning through creative storytelling.
At the end of a unit, students can use Pixton to produce a complete comic that demonstrates their learning beyond traditional tests. Whether they’re explaining photosynthesis, illustrating weather patterns, or modeling energy transfer, their finished comic gives you deep insight into their understanding, reasoning, and ability to apply their learning.
Use Pixton at the start of a unit to gauge how much students already know about a scientific concept/skill, how they explain abstract concepts, and prior knowledge of key vocabulary. Asking students to build or complete a short comic showing their understanding of a concept or process will give you a quick picture of each student’s starting point, so you can plan instruction with confidence.
Formative - Make checks for understanding more engaging and student-friendly.
Pixton makes it easy to monitor understanding during your science lessons. Students can quickly create or revise a comic to correct a misconception, model the next step in a process, or show how a variable changes an outcome. These short, low-stakes creations help you see how students are processing new material in real time, so you can adjust instruction with confidence.
Summative - Students show their learning through creative storytelling.
Students show their learning through creative storytelling.
At the end of a unit, students can use Pixton to produce a complete comic that demonstrates their learning beyond traditional tests. Whether they’re explaining photosynthesis, illustrating weather patterns, or modeling energy transfer, their finished comic gives you deep insight into their understanding, reasoning, and ability to apply their learning.
Why You’ll Love Teaching Science with Pixton
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Real Engagement, Real Learning
Pixton turns all students, even hesitant learners, into active problem-solvers. Pixton’s Comic Maker motivates students, increases class participation, and makes science assignments exciting instead of intimidating. -
Built to Fit Your Science Curriculum
Pixton fits seamlessly into your science curriculum. Activities align with the NGSS and state science standards, supporting practices like modeling, explaining phenomena, sequencing steps, and using evidence. The AI-Assisted Activity Maker helps you create custom, curriculum-aligned lessons in minutes. -
Designed to Make Your Day Easier
With hundreds of science content packs, lesson ideas, story starters, and other resources, you’ll have high-quality materials at your fingertips – no extra prep time required.
Pixton easily adapts to a wide range of interests and abilities, making science instruction more visual, engaging, and accessible for every learner.
Why Pixton works
Pixton’s Comic Maker has been evaluated in several studies and meets ESSA Level 2 evidence standards as an effective instructional resource.
